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Greece

Greece

The Greek Police – known officially as the Hellenic Police – is part of the Ministry of Citizen Protection.

Mission:

Ensure law and order;

Contribute towards social development through effective policing and traffic control;

Prevent, detect and investigate crime.

The Greek Police assumed its current structure in 1984 and is made up of central and regional departments, with an Athens-based headquarters which overseas all national law enforcement activities. One of its main objectives is to continuously address evolving crime trends, demands and challenges though permanent training programmes, contemporary prevention policies and the use of modern science and technology.

INTERPOL Athens

Based at the Greek Police Headquarters, the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) for Greece is part of the International Police Cooperation Directorate. INTERPOL Athens is the exclusive platform for Greek police investigations requiring outreach with the international law enforcement community.

INTERPOL Athens is made up of the following sections:

Vehicle and maritime crime;

Stolen and lost documents;

Tax crime;

Drugs;

Cultural heritage;

Arms, explosives and counter-terrorism;

Missing persons;

Smuggling and trafficking;

Criminal identification;

Document (nationalization) verification;

Extradition;

Police and judicial cooperation;

Fugitives, INTERPOL notices and diffusions.

INTERPOL Athens is staffed by both police officers and civilians, with a total staff of 20.

LYON, France – Greek authorities have asked INTERPOL to assist their efforts to identify a young blond girl found living in a Roma settlement by sharing her DNA profile with its global membership.INTERPOL will make its DNA Gateway available to any member country whose law enforcement agency has been provided with the profile of someone claiming to be a bl...

LYON, France – Evidence gathered by an INTERPOL Incident Response Team (IRT) following the release of the hijacked oil tanker Irene SL in April 2011 is to be used by Greece in its first maritime piracy prosecution.The announcement comes during a meeting between Chief of the Hellenic Police Lieutenant General Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos and INTERPOL Secretar...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – An INTERPOL operation targeting 207 internationally-wanted fugitives wanted for serious crimes including murder, kidnapping, organized crime and child sexual abuse believed to be hiding in South America has led to arrests across the continent and new investigative leads established for almost a quarter.Investigative leads develop...

Greek police have arrested a Colombian man wanted for the rape and murder of a nine-year girl in Colombia five years ago, following a four-month manhunt and operation involving Greek and Colombian police and INTERPOL.Rudy Alonso Suarez Corrales was the subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice – effectively an international wanted persons notice – issued by the C...

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